Geniza

But in the 19th century, material that had lain hidden for centuries in the Geniza, preserved by the dry climate of the region, began to surface, and stray items started to be sold to Western buyers in the markets of the region.

A World Revealed Gabriel Josipovici 2011

Bryant, a retired Marine sergeant, spoke of another Purple Heart recipient, Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Bienvenido Geniza Dona, more commonly known as "Doc."

Tim Debusk aka Timothy Allen DeBusk 2010

Schechter's discoveries in the Geniza opened up an entire civilization and show Cairo to have been the hub of a vibrant culture in which Jews and Arabs successfully intermingled for hundreds of years.

A World Revealed Gabriel Josipovici 2011

The story of that transaction, of the cache that was shifted and of the scholars who subsequently deciphered it, has been told many times but never so well as by Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole in "Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza."

A World Revealed Gabriel Josipovici 2011

You are very much whitewashing the treatment of Jews and others (since 634 to 644 CE, as the Geniza documents you cite, obviously among others, help to establish).

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

Because of this pledge, Moses had to return to Midian after he had been sent to Egypt, as it is said (Ex. 4: 18): “Moses went back to his father-in-law Jether [yeter],” from which the Rabbis learn that Moses went to Egypt, but returned to Midian to be released from (le-hatir) his vow (Ex. Rabbah 2: 33; Mann, Fragments from the Geniza, fragment 12, p. 95).

Zipporah: Midrash and Aggadah. 2009

Q.R. _, XVII, 427 sqq., and Mr. E.J. Worman, vol. XVIII, 1, give us very interesting information respecting Fostat and Cairo, as derived from Geniza documents, but to comprehend fully

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_, VIII, 541, draws attention to a Geniza fragment which contains a marriage contract dated 1160, wherein R. Nethanel is called

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We read in a Geniza fragment that David ben Daniel, a descendant of the Exilarch, passed through this place on the way to Fostat, _J. Q.R.

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In a Geniza document dated 1106, quoted by Dr. Schechter, _Saadyana_, p. 91, occurs the passage: [Hebrew:] "In the city of the isle Hanes, which is in the midst of the sea and of the tongue of the river of Egypt called Nile."] [Footnote 205: The straits of Messina were named Faro.

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